ARMv7 - EABI - Cross Compiler

Guillaume Ballet gballet at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 13:12:29 UTC 2009


> Doesn't xdev build the 4.2.1 version of gcc, like what's in the tree now?
> That's unacceptable to me, gcc didn't bring in support for the Cortex-A8
> processor until 4.3.0.  I was able to build a cross-gcc easily using a target of
> "arm-linux-gnueabi", but I'm not sure if that sort of gcc will do for building
> FreeBSD.  I'll worry about getting that gcc into the build, but will it work for
> me on a binary basis?
>

I used arm-none-eabi to compile my loader for the BeagleBoard so as to
get rid of the linux-specific stuff by default. But maybe you should
define something like arm-freebsd-eabi in gcc's build configuration?


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